OTSU Eibin

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OTSU Eibin 　
Western-style Painter, Member of the Japan Art Academy

Western-style Painter, Member of the Japan Art Academy

Born in Kumamoto city in 1943, and spent his childhood in Omuta city, Fukuoka prefecture. After studying at Tokyo University of the Arts and completing graduate school of the university, presented his works at exhibitions including the Dokuritsu Exhibition, and attracted attentions in the painter's society. Although he had drawn fantastic works called "Mari series" that had gotten inspired by memories of his boyhood, he started working on "Girls series", on which his two daughters were modeled, when he moved to France with his family in 1979. Since then, while continuing to draw works with the themes of growing daughters and families as his life work, he is working on landscape paintings also as a new theme in recent years.
Member of the Japan Art Academy, Member of the Dokuritsu Exhibition, and former Dean of Faculty of Art and Communication, Tama Art University.

1943

Born in Kumamoto city

1969

Completed graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts

1971

Won Independent Prize at the 39th "The Dokuritsu Exhibition"

1972

Won Independent Prize at the 40th "The Dokuritsu Exhibition"

1979

Went to France with his family, and came back to Japan in 1981

1983

Received the 26th "Yasui Award", and his work was purchased by The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1989

Professor at Tama Art University

1993

Received the 11th "Miyamoto Saburo Memorial Award"

2000

Produced the stained glass "Shirokane Spring and Autumn" at Shirokanedai Station on the subway Namboku Line

2005

Won Grand Prize at the 28th "Sompo Japan Togo Aoyagi Art Museum"

2007

Received "The Japan Art Academy Award", Member of the Japan Art Academy